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No Limit or Limit

Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I’m always a bit conflicted about the choice between playing NoLimit or Limit games. On the one hand, I clearly understand limit strategy better. On the other hand, most of the serious donks seem to be playing NL these days. Every time I play some NL, I seem to do well. [...]

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Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.

Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Today, poker was mucho ugly. My PokerStars balance is now $1,250 lower than it was yesterday. I won a little bit at 50/100 or it would have been even worse. At one point, I was probably down $3,000, which would have been grim. On the plus side, I’m now at 2,000 [...]

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Back to the grind

Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I wound up sleeping a shocking amount, so I didn’t get too much play in yesterday. Most of my play was two tabling 15/30, where I ran into my old friend RocketPlayer. I had a weird session at his table where nothing was working and the table was good. There was one [...]

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A tip that might help you improve your game

Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Suited had the idea for me to write this particular blog entry.  I was telling her about an experience I had last night where someone started to berate me for being such a bad player.  This happens to me fairly often because I seem to play a bit different than anyone else I see.  I [...]

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18-1 never felt so bad.

Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I have been a lifelong Patriots fan. I suffered through so many years when we were terrible that I can hardly tell you about them. You know, when their logo looked like this: The only real joy you got in those days was when Jim Plunkett would somehow manage to heave the ball a [...]

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January SuperNova Quest Results

Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Well, the first month is in the bag and the final results are in. I’m very pleased with the results and feel as if I’m playing almost as well as I did when I stopped six months ago. You’ll recall that my goals were to make SuperNova, which requires 100,000 VPPs and I [...]

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The challenge of my quest may be finding tables.

Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Tonight, the 30/60 game didn’t run most of the evening and then it was terrible once it did. The 15/30 ran short-handed for a while and then it collapsed. I made a few bucks before it did, but I was forced to play 10/20 for the most part. I’m pretty sure that [...]

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A no-limit interlude

Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

None of the good games were running early last night, so I wandered over to play some full ring NL. I was doing quite well until I ran into this hand: PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $4 BB (9 handed) Button ($413.40) SB ($404) BB ($479) UTG ($442) UTG+1 ($80) MP1 ($414.55) MP2 ($361.25) MP3 ($564.85) Hero ($597.90) Preflop: Hero is CO with   . 2 folds, MP1 [...]

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Oh yeah, bad days. I forgot about them.

Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Poker is a funny game. In the long run, the money goes from the bad players to the good players. It is as inevitable as water flowing downhill and casinos making money. The key aspect of that sentence is the “long run” bit. Many of us fail to appreciate just how [...]

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What does he think I think he thinks I think he has?

Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I played a mildly interesting hand today against a solid player that I face all the time at 30/60 and 15/30 on stars. I thought it might be interesting to walk through it and what I was thinking at the time. I almost entitled this post “A fine line between genius and donkey” PokerStars [...]

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I need to run even better now!

Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

We met with a decorator today to review his plans for the house. Apparently, he wants us to spend about 33% of what we originally spent to purchase the house on various upgrades and renovations. This means that I need to play some really good poker. At one point when he was [...]

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The more I look, the more I like! PokerTracker 3 is going to be great.

Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I’ve got to spend some more time with it and I’m becoming a big fan.  You can really find some brilliant stuff with the new filters.  Here are a sample of the cool things you can do: Three of a kind on flop — top set Three of a kind on turn — middle set open ended straight [...]

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First look at PokerTracker 3.0

Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

The PokerTracker 3.0 beta test is open to the public now. I downloaded it from their site last night and ran my last month’s data through it. All the key numbers matched the numbers in my old PokerTracker DB, which is good news. It comes with a built-in idiot-proof install of the [...]

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Pandora’s Box

Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

So, I got PokerTracker running on the macbook using Parallels and I’ve loaded all my hands and I have much better precision on my results.  As I suspected, I’m losing at 5/10 trying to play four or more simultaneous tables.  I’m also getting killed heads-up.  It turns out I’m getting waxed at pretty much every [...]

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